Last year I ran this as “Name the UDFA,” since the 2017 undrafted class was 20 players. With a much smaller class, this now becomes “Name the Rookie.”

Remember, some questions may have more than one possible answer, but naming any single player (or for some questions, a pair of players) who fits the question counts as correct. Also, every current Patriots rookie will be a correct answer at least once. (Note that initial UDFA signings Darren Andrews – now on the NFI list – and Chris Lacy – cut and claimed by Detroit – are omitted.)

Good luck!

Name a 2018 Patriots rookie…

…whom the Patriots traded up to draft?

…who played college football in the FBS?

…who shares a surname with a 2017 Patriots UDFA signing?

Name a pair of players, one draft pick and one UDFA, who were selected/signed from the same school.

…who wore #35 in college?

…who wore #7 in college?

…who wore #30 in college?

…who, for OTAs, is wearing a uniform number that can legally be worn by players at his position?

…who, for OTAs, is wearing a uniform number not currently worn by any other Patriot?

…whose first and last name begin with the same letter?

…whose first and last name are the same length?

…whose last name, of the New England rookie class, is worth the most points in Scrabble? (NOTE: All Scrabble references refer to the standard U.S. edition.)

…whose last name, of the New England rookie class, is worth the fewest points in Scrabble?

…whose last name cannot be spelled with a standard Scrabble set (excluding blanks)?

…whose last name is also a common first name?

…whose last name is a Scrabble-legal word?

…whose last name spelled backward is a Scrabble-legal word?

…whose last name is an anagram of a common English verb (in any proper form)?

…whose last name is an anagram of a name in the title of a Shakespeare play?

…whose last name contains the same letter twice, but not a double letter?

Answers:

Duke Dawson (yes, the Patriots traded down first, but the final move to move to #56 overall for Dawson was a trade up).

Keion Crossen, Shane Wimann, and Ja’Whaun Bentley (who wore #35 his freshman year only before switching to #4).

Duke Dawson, J.C. Jackson, and Ralph Webb.

A.J. Moore and Corey Bojorquez. (The front-page picture for this article makes Bojorquez’s number look like 50, but it’s 30.)

Ja’Whaun Bentley (#53, LB); Christian Sam (#54, LB); John Atkins (#62, DT); Trent Harris (#63, DE); and Frank Herron (#64, DT). Take half-credit if you named Isaiah Wynn, who is wearing #50 at OTAs; while offensive linemen can wear numbers in the 50s, only centers are technically allowed to per the rulebook.

I’ll be surprised if they only keep 3 true RBs (plus a ST’er in Bolden and a FB). But, it would obviously be great if they could get by with only 3. I just think injury history at the position tells us it is pretty risky. All 3 RBs are pretty versatile, though, as is Bolden, so if they all show well in camp as pass catchers and pass protectors and between the tackles runners, maybe this is a year where they can keep only 3. Plus maybe try to sneak that Webb kid on the PS.

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